Opening with the execution of John Brown, this documentary explores the bloodiest period of Kansas history - a time when Kansas truly was at the heart of a nation. This is a project directed for the producers at Lone Chimney Films in association with PBS. See the Lone Chimney Films website at: WWW.LONECHIMNEYFILMS.ORG.
See the Kansas City Star Review
The DVD copy of Touched By Fire: Bleeding Kansas is now available for purchase in Wichita, Kansas at Borders Books, Watermark Books, and The Old Cowtown Museum. Elsewhere in Kansas, Touched by Fire is sold at: Wichita State University, The University of Kansas, Kansas State University, and the Kansas State Historical Society.
Copies of the DVD and soundtrack can also be purchased through the Lone Chimney Films website listed above.
The first short film under the SoulSearcher banner - this film drifts through multiple mediums including: fiction, documentary, literature, and philosophy on a voyage of perceptual self-discovery. Visit the EUROAMERICAN WEBPAGE, featuring an updated production diary.
EuroAmerican was voted one of the top five films at the 2004 Chicago Reel Shorts International Film Festival.
The Jazz Man
Despite the gritty sounds of downtown traffic and above the noise of the consumer rush on the 16th Street City Walk, those sweet old sounds of street musician Adam Stawinski score the pulse and soundtrack of Denver, Colorado. This is a short documentary about a "Jazz Man."
Post-production wrapped on August 26th, 2005. The film is currently being submitted to film festivals around the country.
La Jetée, a film resource center in Clermont-Ferrand France, is including EuroAmerican in its library archives.
"La Jetée" is a 1,000m2 place entirely dedicated to cinema and the short film world. 25,000 short film titles will be referenced.
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Peggy Stokesberry, a Starkey client, discusses her daily independent living tasks in Hattie's Legacy.
Hattie's Legacy - a Warren Presents Portrait of the Starkey Organization in Wichita, Kansas - won a 2005 Public Relations Society of America Clarus Award. The portrait was co-produced with Starkey Marketing representatives John Decesaro and Jamie Opat.
CURRENT PROJECTS
EuroAmerican
Warren Presents
SoulSearcher Films produces many of the segments and animations for the program, as well as handling the programming. The Sundance Channel has also agreed to provide special programming for the show.
Be sure and check out this radical new concept in PreShow Entertainment next time you visit the Warren Old Town Theatre in Downtown Wichita!
For more information visit WWW.WARRENTHEATRES.COM.
This project began exhibition on Christmas Day 2004 and plays before all films at the Warren Old Town Theatre. It is updated with new programming each month.
A family, a flood, and folk music: Three months after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, a husband and wife country/bluegrass band called Truckstop Honeymoon return from their new residence in Lawrence, Kansas to survey the damage to their home and community in the Ninth Ward.
Utilizing the direct-cinema style, the film compassionately enters the lives of Mike West, Katie Euliss, and their daughters Sadie and Vega as they tour the American Midwest and the South - delighting audiences with their rambunctious music, sharp-tongued lyrics, and determination to survive.
This feature documentary is a tale of family, community, music, and survival amidst the ruins of the most devastating storm of the century.
This project is currently complete, with planned festival release in Fall 2006. View the online press kit in Adobe Reader by clicking the following link: PRESS KIT
See the band website at: www.truckstophoneymoon.com.
To read the excellent Lawrence.com news article on Truckstop Honeymoon - including photos, music samples, and pictures of their home in the 9th Ward, click on the image below:
Bloody Dawn: The Lawrence Massacre
Based on the book by Thomas Goodrich, this film tells the infamous story of William Quantrill and his Raiders as they sacked and burned Lawrence, Kansas in August of 1863. The event ignited a bitter rivalry along the border of Kansas and Missouri which would last well beyond the American Civil War. Including interviews with Thomas Goodrich, Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian William C. Davis, Dr. Craig Miner, and other noted historians - Bloody Dawn is the second film, after Touched By Fire, in the "Border Wars Trilogy," produced in association with Lone Chimney Productions.
This project is currently in production with an estimated completion date of August, 2006.
My Fellow Americans
Seeking to the fulfill the mission of SoulSearcher Films, My Fellow Americans is an episodic documentary project utlitizing the "direct cinema" approach. Divided into thirty-minute episodes, each film will explore the lives of everyday Americans who normally fall below the radar of the contemporary media. It is an effort to compassionately enter the lives of everyday people we call our neighbors, but perhaps never get a chance to know.
This project is currently in production.
The Dangling Conversation
The second short film for SoulSearcher Films is a romantic fable exploring the changing hearts of two twentysomethings as they find themselves romantically connected to one another after a first date, and disconnected from their friends and the bar scene they were accustomed to. Essentially: How do modern youth "settle down?"
This project is currently in Pre-Production.
God's Lonely Man
A documentary drifting through the lives of four individuals, this film seeks to explore and question novelist Thomas Wolfe's observation that, "loneliness is the central and inevitable fact of human existence."
See and print the full GOD'S LONELY MAN DOCUMENTARY PROPOSAL
This project is currently in Pre-Production.
